Al Bundy
| Al Bundy | |
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Ed O'Neill as Al Bundy (season 2, episode 22)
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| First appearance | "Pilot" |
| Last appearance | "Chicago Shoe Exchange" |
| Created by |
Michael G. Moye Ron Leavitt |
| Portrayed by | Ed O'Neill |
| Information | |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Women's shoe salesman |
| Family | Father (deceased) Mother (died during series) |
| Spouse(s) | Peggy Bundy (married in 1971) |
| Children |
Kelly Bundy (daughter, eldest child) Bud Bundy (son, youngest child) |
| Relatives | Jimmy (nephew) Uncle Stymie (uncle) Seamus McBundy (ancestor; deceased) Eugene Bundy (cousin) Uncle Joe (uncle) Cousin Sheila |
Al Bundy is a fictional character and the essential protagonist of the U.S. television series Married... with Children, played by Ed O'Neill. He is a misanthropic, beer-loving, indebted, working-class father of two, portrayed as somewhat a tragicomedic figure. Although he is cheap, unsuccessful, boorish, unhappy, and scheming, he nevertheless stands by his family, displaying wit, self-sacrifice and resilience in times of crisis. He and his wife, Peggy Bundy, were rated the 59th best characters on television by Bravo.
Al Bundy is a simple, working-class man, forever regretful of the turns his life has taken since the end of high school. He was a star fullback on the Polk High School football team. However, marriage and a broken leg prevented him from attending university on a college football scholarship.
Al is married to Peggy, whom he mistakenly asked to marry him while drunk. They have two children: Kelly, a promiscuous dumb blonde, and Bud, an intelligent but perpetually horny and unpopular schemer named after a brand of beer. In two separate episodes Peg refers to Al as Allen. Al lives in a suburb of Chicago and is the proud owner of a 1970s Dodge automobile (although the model shown occasionally on-screen is a Plymouth Duster, it is referred to throughout the series as simply "The Dodge"). He works as a shoe salesman at the fictional Gary's Shoes and Accessories for Today's Woman in the fictional New Market Mall. Al hates his job, loses it several times throughout the series, yet always ends up coming back to it. There is a running joke throughout the show that Al makes minimum-wage. However, in one episode, Al is offered early retirement and given a year's pay: $12,000, yet in another he says that after taxes and Peggy's spending he only gets one nickel out of every paycheck. In "My Mom, The Mom", Al states that he earns a 10% commission on each sale. In another episode, Peg states that his paycheck was for "80 Pecos". The family also brought in income through game-shows, theft, various absurd schemes and mooching off of the Rhoades and D'Arcy's wealth throughout the series.
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